JICA updates 2040 plan for Yangon development
By Myat Nyein Aye | Wednesday, 04 January 2017
The
Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has handed over an
updated version of its 2040 master plan for Yangon’s development to the
region government, which is waiting until it has received a bevy of
other plans from other agencies before deciding which recommendations to
adopt.
Yasushi
Tanaka, the director general for JICA’s Southeast Asia and Pacific
Department, handed the summary report to Yangon Region Chief Minister U
Phyo Min Thein in the final weeks of last year.
JICA first drafted the plan in 2012, but began amending it in the middle of 2016 at the request of the new government, Keiichiro Nakazawa, JICA’s chief representative in Myanmar, previously told The Myanmar Times.
The country’s largest city has changed massively since 2012, with worsening traffic
among the main issues to have sprung up, according to JICA. The new
version of the 2040 plan was supported by the Yangon Region Transport
Authority (YRTA) and Yangon City Development Committee.
The final report includes a short-term plan for measures to be adopted by 2020, a mid-term plan for 2025 and long term for 2035.
There
are 41 priority projects under the strategic urban development part of
the 2040 plan, which JICA recommends be started by 2020, with reviews
and updates for priority projects every five years.
JICA
also said that it would be willing to support the priority plans,
although officials at the agency could not be reached for comment on the
details of these projects.
Under the urban
transport development component, there are 96 projects and “nine
strategic actions”, which include “bus modernisation, traffic management
and safety management, Transit Oriented Development, and strengthening
of YRTA”, JICA said.
The Yangon Region government is already tackling several of these. A modern bus system called “BRT Lite” – based on a JICA suggestion – was adopted in 2015, and the YRTA is in the process of expanding the system to new routes run by public-private partnership firms.
There have been campaigns to promote seatbelt use in the commercial capital and JICA is helping upgrade the city’s circular railway.
But
the Yangon Region government needs to consider suggestions contained in
other plans for the city’s development before deciding which of JICA’s
projects to adopt, Daw Nilar Kyaw, regional minister of electricity,
industry and transportation, told The Myanmar Times.
“We
just received the JICA report but that does not mean we will adopt the
proposals for the [region] government development plan because there are
other countries also drawing up [plans] for Yangon’s development,” she
said.
Daw Nilar Kyaw previously told The Myanmar Times
the regional government was in discussions with JICA, KOICAf, France’s
Agence Française de Développement and the UK’s Department for
International Development in its effort to amalgamate various proposed
projects into a single Yangon 2040 master plan.
She would not comment on further details of the updated JICA plan.
Yangon Region government officials told The Myanmar Times in December that they had received Union government approval for a second special economic zone near Yangon.
That
project will also be connected to a new international airport and a
southern seaport, according to region government MPs with knowledge of
the plan.
Ref:http://www.mmtimes.com/index.php/business/24405-jica-updates-2040-plan-for-yangon-development.html
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Myanma Railways to upgrade circle line with Japanese loan
By Aye Nyein Win | Wednesday, 13 July 2016
State-owned
Myanma Railways will receive US$200 million in development financing
from Japan to upgrade Yangon’s circular railway line and has set an
ambitious target of tripling commuter traffic, an official said
yesterday.
Every
day 73,000 people use Yangon’s only train line, said Myanma Railways
general manager U Htun Aung Thin. Once the railways are upgraded and new
trains are running, he hopes this number can reach 263,000.
“By
upgrading the route, crucially we can cut running times. It now takes 2
hours and 50 minutes for a train to complete the [46-kilometre or
28-mile] circuit, while stopping at 38 stations,” he
“We
aim to reduce this to less than 2 hours. Trains can drive at 15 miles
per hour at the moment but we hope to increase this to 26
Myanma
Railways will also run more services, U Htun Aung Thin said. “Now
commuters need to wait between 15 and 45 minutes to take the train, but
we hope to reduce the wait to 10 or 12 minutes.”
Shorter wait times will be crucial to attract commuter traffic, which currently relies heavily on the city’s overstretched bus lines and congested roads.
Manual
signaling will be replaced with automatic systems and Myanma Railways
will buy 11 new six-carriage trains, U Htun Aung Thin said.
“We
have signed an agreement to install automatic signals and to buy
brand-new Diesel Electric Multiple Use (DEMU) carriages. Japan will give
us a 24 billion yen ($206 million) overseas development assistance loan
for that,” he added.
The Ministry of Transport
and Communications will take charge of the project, which he hopes will
be finished by June 2019, “depending on financing and the labour force”.
In
the past, commuters relied on the circle line, but gradually they
switched to buses, because the trains were old and did not run on time.
Better trains will help relieve pressure on Yangon’s roads which have
grown increasingly crowded over the past few years.
“Myanma
Railways decided to upgrade the railway in collaboration with the Japan
International Cooperation Agency study team,” U Htun Aung Thin said.
JICA completed wide-reaching plans for urban development in Yangon in 2013 and 2014, including a transport master plan.
Finding
the right fares will be important, he added. “We charge K100 per ticket
regardless of the type of train. Because of this our earnings have
fallen from K8 million to K7 million per day. So we need to consider all
aspects of running the railway.
Ref:http://www.mmtimes.com/index.php/business/21362-myanma-railways-to-upgrade-yangon-circle-line-with-japanese-loan.html
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